Hm but if the cereal was Schmilk sans milk (and then you add the milk to it like normal cereal), wouldn’t it not be soaking overnight? Anyway the basic idea is to make a cereal that is nutritionally complete only with milk so you wouldn’t be adding water to it! It’s super clever! Someone get on that.

My problem with using soylent (note lower case) as a cereal is that it is much too finely ground. A soylent cereal should have at least the makeup of oatmeal or bran buds. I saw a proposal for that from a company than I don’t consider viable but it’s a good format.

This is really an undervalued argument… There are a lot of toxins, carcinogens, etc in most “normal” foods we eat. Most plants in nature wage chemical warfare against the creatures that eat them. Even some of the healthiest foods have bad with the good.

Soylent may miss some optional nutrients, but it almost certainly misses a lot of problems, too.

i’ve been living almost exclusively off soylent for about 8 months now. I feel like my body is being properly fueled, but I am interested in getting bloodwork done to see. Unfortunately, no health insurance at the moment. Hopefully soon enough though!

That’s one of the reasons I’m trying Soylent, to replace the junk I tend to eat during the day with something that actually makes an attempt to meet nutritional standards. Can’t wait for my first shipment to arrive!

I also find the “may have unknown essential nutrients” argument to be hard to believe. Remember that some of the ingredients in Soylent, such as oats and rice protein and oils, are not single-chemical substances,. These ingredients, which make up the bulk of Soylent, are likely to have a similar amount of those unknown nutrients as traditional food does. This is all rather speculative, but I think the odds are pretty low that 1. anyone would go 100% Soylent long enough to experience a deficiency and 2. such deficiencies will present themselves.

OP ask your friend if Soylent is better/worse than fast food(McDonalds, PapaJohns, etc). Specifically ask him if a individual had extremely limited time and could only choose between those two options for two meals per day which would be better. Thanks in advance.